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  2. Guiana Shield - Wikipedia

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    The Guiana Highlands are also the source of some of the world's most well-known waterfalls such as Angel Falls, Kaieteur Falls and Cuquenan Falls. The Guiana Shield underlies Guyana (previously British Guiana), Suriname (previously Dutch Guiana), and French Guiana (or Guyane), much of southern Venezuela, as well as parts of Colombia and Brazil.

  3. Guianan Highlands moist forests - Wikipedia

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    The Guayanan Highlands moist forests (NT0124) is an ecoregion in the south of Venezuela, the north of Brazil, and also within Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. It is in the Amazon biome. It encompasses an upland region with diverse fauna and flora, which contains dramatic tepuis, or sandstone table mountains. The region has been inaccessible ...

  4. The Guianas - Wikipedia

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    French Guiana, an overseas department and region of France. Brazilian or Portuguese Guiana, now the Amapá State of Brazil. The three Guianas proper have a combined population of 1,718,651; Guyana: 804,567, Suriname: 612,985, and French Guiana: 301,099 [1] [2] Most of the population is along the coast. Due to the jungles to the south, the ...

  5. Guyana - Wikipedia

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    The country is home to six ecoregions: Guayanan Highlands moist forests, Guianan moist forests, Orinoco Delta swamp forests, Tepuis, Guianan savanna, and Guianan mangroves. [38] The Guiana Shield region is little known and extremely rich biologically. Unlike other areas of South America, over 70% of the natural habitat remains pristine.

  6. Guayana natural region - Wikipedia

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    It is on the geological Guiana Shield craton, and is the Venezuelan part of the biogeographic Guayana Highlands and their tepuis (mesas). Its limits by the north and east is formed by the route of the rivers Orinoco, Atabapo and Negro Rivers; and by the south the borders with Brazil. The region occupies almost half of the territory of Venezuela ...

  7. Category:Guayana Highlands - Wikipedia

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    The Guayana Highlands — the higher elevations, plateaus, and tepuis (mesas) on the Guiana Shield craton of the South American Plate in northern South America. The heavily forested highlands , located in northern Brazil , Guyana , and Venezuela , have Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregions .

  8. Guianan moist forests - Wikipedia

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    To the northwest it adjoins the Llanos ecoregion, the Guianan piedmont and lowland moist forests and Guianan Highlands moist forest. Scattered patches of this last ecoregion are found on higher ground within the Guianan moist forests ecoregion. To the southwest and in places along its southern border it adjoins large areas of Guianan savanna.

  9. Geography of Guyana - Wikipedia

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    Much of the interior highlands consist of grassland. [1] The largest expanse of grassland, the Rupununi Savannah, covers about 15,000 square kilometers in southern Guyana. [1] This savannah also extends far into Venezuela and Brazil. [1] The part in Guyana is split into northern and southern regions by the Kanuku Mountains. [1]